A Teetotaller's Gift to His Town

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 85, 25 January 1887, Page 4

A Teetotaller's Gift to His Town

Alderman Norton, in offering to contribute £1000 towards the estabBientof a free libiary at Poole in celebration of the Queen's Jubilep writes the Mayor as follows : — 'I li ive been a householder of the towu Poole about + w *nty one years, and have abstain d from tho use of intoxicating liquors fur a longer period. It is an established fact that tne average expenditure in the United Kingdom, on alcoholic drink is about £4 10s per head per annum. Duriug my married life my household has averaged sis persons. The sum of £4 10s per annum for each of these persons for twenty-one years, with compound interest, amounts to about £1000, and with this sum I am very pleased to offer to erect a suitable building and present it to the towu for the purpose of a free library, readingroom, and, ii possible, a school of art. The town will thus benefit by my abstinence, while I am an aditional gainer in being saved headaches and heart aches innumerable, which follow in the train of drink."

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